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+Marriage | September 19, 2011

Study: Blacks and Whites Intermarrying More in the U.S.

By Meredith Melnick

We have yet to arrive in a postracial America, but a new study finds evidence that racial barriers are coming down: between 1980 and 2008, the rate of interracial marriage between blacks and whites increased rapidly, even outpacing marriage between whites and other ethnic groups, including Asians, Hispanics and American Indians.

+Psychology | May 4, 2011

Why Happiness Isn’t Always Good: Asians vs. Americans

By John Cloud
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Among journalists — and less so among psychologists — the subset of mental-health research called “positive psychology” has become powerfully influential. Positive psychology, which was more or less founded by a University of Pennsylvania professor named Martin Seligman, focuses not on ordinary or pathological behavior — the two subjects that most psychologists study — but [...]

+Race | December 10, 2010

Who’s White? Who’s Black? Who Knows?

By Jeffrey Kluger
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Never mind what you’ve heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President;  Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.